Rowina
(9 Sep 2011)"To Gerlina and
Sherry, on who are the "true" Jews"

Conversion has always been a part of Judaism,
except at certain times when leaders prohibited it, such as Ezra
and Nehemiah.

Jesus was descended from converts Ruth and Rehab. I read
that only three women are specifically named in Jesus' ancestry,
and two of them are the converts Ruth and Rehab.

It would be overwhelmingly hard, although probably not
impossible, to find a "pure" Jew today, one who is descended
from
Judah, Benjamin, and Levi....the others being descended from the
other tribes and mostly living in the northern reaches of
Israel in Bible times. Remember that ALL the tribes left
Egypt with Moses and all entered the Promised Land eventually,
although many individuals of each tribe died on the way.
And with these people came many converts, people who chose to
leave Egypt with the Jews.

Now you certainly have something real when you say that many
"Jews" today are not spiritually Jews. Those who follow
the
Illuminati cabal are not spiritually true Jews. It is
amazing that they call themselves Jews at all, since they are so
intermarried
with wealthy gentile families. At least this is true, I
read, of their "leaders".

When I was a young girl, I knew many Jews because they ware in
my high school and university, and because for some reason
the young men were attracted to me. One of these young men
whom I knew best was descended from an offshoot of this original
Illuminati family. He was not "good news". Praise
God for escape from that trap.

My second husband (first died) was half Jewish by descent,
including descent from Levi, but he was never raised a
Jew. He
attended a Christian church in his small Oregon town, and
was Methodist song leader at University. He always
said I knew much
more about Judaism than he did. His daughter from his
first marriage, however, married a Jew and went through
conversion to
Judaism. Her children are Jews, especially her last child
who is strongly anti-Christian because she thinks that we are
"Jew-haters."
Her first child married a well-known Jewish journalist (known in
the Jewish community) and has a Jewish child. Jews I have
met were
always puzzled when I told them I was the wife of "X's
grandfather". They thought it very strange that I, a
non-Jew, could be the
wife of X, who must be a true Jew to be the grandfather of
X. Many of these Jews who thought this were blond people
who were
obviously not descended from people of the traditional Jewish
homeland in the Middle East.

These people are considered to be true Jews by the Reform Jewish
congregation. They would have to be re-converted if they
became Orthodox, going through certain rituals such as the
Mikvah, (bath or baptism).

As for the converts from Khazaria, usually referred to as
Ashkenazi Jews, they too are all mixed up with the Sephardic
Jews.
When I went to high school, many many of my classmates were
descended from Sephardic Jews from Rhodes, but one of these
Sephardim had the surname "Ashkenazi". This probably means
that he was descended from an Ashkenazi Jew who married
a Sephardic Jew.

Many of the persecuted Jews of Spain, in the middle ages, were
also converts, surprisingly, but history teaches strange
lessons.
Some of these converted jews, who were of course persecuted by
the Christians, migrated to Mexico and Scotland as places of
refuge. Scotland became a truly "open" and welcoming home
to Jews in the Middle Ages, (and to Moslems and others), who
were
usually forced to conceal their identities "pro forma", but were
actually known to be "secret Jews". Some of my ancestors
from
Scotland have names which indicate that they were of "secret
Jewish" descent, and it is even historically known positively
that
these ancestors migrated to Scotland in the middle ages, from
England, before that from France, and then their trail gets lost
in
various European nations. Some Scottish "secret Jews"
migrated to the southeast part of the United States, and formed
Presbyterian
churches, but were also mindful of their Jewish roots.
Those who married Indians there came to be called Melungeons;
two
famous men of part Melungeon descent were Abraham Lincoln and
the actor Tom Hanks.

The bottom line to me is that "true Jews" are those who follow
HaShem and try to do His will, however difficult or impossible
that
may be. Often they are hostile to Christians because they
believe it is impure to worship a man, such as Jesus. They
do not
believe Jesus is God. However, they do follow the G-d of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and for this reason are called Jews.
And so many of them have gentile ancestors that it may be almost
impossible to find a "true Jew" in the racially pure sense.
Probably there are a few in Brooklyn in a Hasidic
congregation. Probably even a few who might have a
"genealogy" to prove it.